Inlaid toilet seat



pril 10, 1934. F. BY HACKETT 1,954,448

INLAID TOILET SEAT Filed March 19, 1952 E3 @C C;

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A zZ/4 pgp Patented Apr. 10, 1934 Uru'rizp STATES PATi-:NT'oFl-lcs FrankB. Hackett, chicago, nl., as'sigmr u The Brunswick-Balke-CollenderCompany, Chicago,

v Ill., a corporation of Delaware v Application March 19,1932, SerialNo. 599,866

claims. (ci. 40-2 This invention relates to an improved inlaid toiletseat and has for one of its principal objects the provision of a toiletseat or the like wherein insignia such as letters, designs, or the likeare i built into the material of the seat itself in such a way as to beineffaceable.

, One of the important objects of this invention' is to provide a toiletseat with inlays, of any material or design, incorporated into thesurface thereof, which designs or thelike will always be visible on thesurface of the seat and which cannot be erased, eradicated or removed,and which at the same time will be capable of use throughout aconsiderable range of possibilities.

Another ,important object of the invention resides in the provision of atoilet seat having advertising matter or `the like incorporated into thesurface thereof, which advertising matter forms an integral portion ofthe material of the seat itself, and wherein there is employed a novelprocess of incorporating this matter into the body and surface of theseat.

Other and further importantobjects of the invention will be apparentfrom the disclosures in the accompanying drawings and followingspecication.

The invention, in a preferred form, is illustrated in the drawings andhereinafter morefully described.

In the drawing:

Figure 1 is a plan View of a portion of a completed toilet seat, showingsame as constructed in accordance with the improved process of thisinvention.

Figure 2 is a view of a portion of a toilet seat core showing the sameprepared for the incorporation thereinto of the insignia and subsequentcoating, respectively, which form the completed seat.

Figure 3 is a top plan View of one of the inserts or inlays used in theproduction of the seat of this invention.

Figure 4 is a side elevation of the insert shown in Figure 3.

Figure 5 is a sectional view taken on the line.

afford greater strength and is then covered with a composition coating12 of some material such as rubber or the like which is preferablyvulcanized onto the core and which then forms a unitary integral seatstructure. Obviously many types of seats may be made along these linesand all may incorporate the ideas of this invention.

In the improved process of this invention the wooden core 10 is firstrouted out as shown at 14 to a depth of from l/16th to l/Bth of an inchor 65 thereabouts, the shape and dimensions of the routed out areacorresponding to a plate or the like 16 which is then insertedthereinto, as best shown in Figure 5, and which plate is integraltherewith, and has extending upwardly therefrom a sign, series ofletters, a device. or some other insignia, such as illustrated generallyat 18, which may be of any shape or design. The height of these devices18 is such as to vapproximate the thickness of the outer coating 12 ofvulcanized 75 rubber or the like which is applied to the core during theprocess of manufacture.

. In the practice of this invention the plate 16 is inserted into therouted out space 14 and the core, with the plate therein, is then'covered with 80 a layer of uncured rubber or the like, after which theentire structure is placed into a vulcanizing machine and the outercoating is vulcanized, thereby producing a unitary seat structure havingthe inserts or inlaysv built bodily into the surfacev thereof andextending through the surface and into the core. v

In the further application of the process the vulcanized seat is thenfinished by sanding, or the like, to a desired degree of smoothness andiinish, whereupon the material of the insignia appears in the coveringas distinguished from the material of the coating composition.

'I'he -plate 16 and the material of the insignia or letters 18 aresemi-cured hard rubber and dur- 95. ing the vulcanization process thiscuring is completed and the Vulcanization thereby results in forming theletters or insignia as an unremovable and actually integral part of thehard rubber covering.

Obviously the letters or other insignia are of a different color fromthe color of the coating, whereby sufficient contrast results, thereby'affording a readily visible and strikingfdesign which is incorporatedinto the seat structure in. an un- 105 eradicable manner.

Obviously the location of the letters or other insignia can be at anydesired or convenient portion of the surface of the seat, and anydesired amount of the area of the seat itself can be used no for thispurpose. The insignia. can be used for advertising, identiflcation orother purposes with very good eiIect in any event and the idea itselfcan be applied tosimilar objects by means of a similar process. Variouscombinations of colors, or insignia, may be used with considerableeffect and striking results.

Iamawarethatmanychangesmaybemade and numerous details of constructionvaried throughout a wide range without departing from the principles ofthis invention, and I therefore do not purpose limiting the patentgranted thereon otherwise than as necessitated by the prior art.

I claim as my invention- 1. A toilet seat comprising a wooden core and-a vulcanized rubber coating over the core, to-

gether with insgniaincorporated into the coating and forming a partthereof, said insignia comprising a plurality of separate visibleportions, all mounted on a single plate, the said plate embedded in thematerial of the core.

2. A toilet seat comprising a wooden core and a vulcanized rubbercoating over the core, together with insignia incorporated into thecoating and forming a part thereof, said insignia comprising a pluralityof separate visible portions, all mounted on a single plate, the saidplate embedded in the material of the core, the plate and insigniacomposed of semi-cured rubber.

3. A toilet seat comprising a wooden core and a vulcanized rubbercoating over the core, together with insignia incorporated into thecoating and forming a part thereof, said insignia comprising a pluralityof separate visible portions, all mounted on a single plate, the saidplate embedded in the material oi' the core, the plate and insigniacomposed of semi-cured rubber vulcanized in position with the vulcanizedcoating.

4. A toilet seat comprising a wooden core having routed out portionstherein, plates inserted in the routed out portions, each plate havingintegral therewith upstanding insignia, and a coating for the core ofsubstantially the same thickness as the heighrt of said insignia, saidcoating and insignia being incorporated into a unitary structure,composed of rubber and vulcanized in position on the core.

5. A toilet seat comprising a laminated Wooden core, a routed out spacein the core, a thin plate of semi-cured rubber in the space, a pluralityof semi-cured rubber letters integral with said plate and upstandingtherefrom, and a coating of rubber enveloping the coreand surroundingand contacting the letters and of substantially the same thickness asthe height of the letters, the coating, the letters and the plate beingvulcanized by heat and pressure into an integral envelope for the core.

FRANK B. HACKETI.

